I am writing regarding the article published Tuesday, July 22, concerning dismission of marijuana charges against Jody Bingham. I have known Jody all my life and I am troubled that someone could ruin someone's life so easily.

Sometimes it’s good to stop and explain why things happen the way they do. It helps me to put the logic behind decisions in writing just to see if my explanation is as clear on paper as it is between my ears.

Each election season as the polling day draws near, journalism stresses rise. Contrary to popular belief, we strive to be fair and objective.

Every year there are 300 to 400 abused and neglected children in Hardin County Family Court. They are in court through no fault of their own, but because their parents or caregivers cannot or will not care for them. Substance abuse, domestic violence, mental health issues, poverty, and generational patterns of abuse all contribute to child maltreatment in Hardin County.

As the project consultant for the Hardin County Vision Project, it is my pleasure to invite each citizen of Hardin County to join Judge-Executive Harry Berry and me by attending the upcoming Hardin County Vision Project community forum. It begins at 4 p.m. Thursday at the Hardin County Schools Performing Arts Center at John Hardin High School, 384 W.A. Jenkins Road, Elizabeth

Barack Obama, who basically has ignored Kentucky in his bid for the Democratic nomination for president, leads Hillary Rodham Clinton with 1,905 of the 2,026 delegates needed. She has 1,719. Mathematically, there does not seem to be any way Clinton can win the nomination. Maybe.

I was greatly disappointed in the printing of Bonnie Erbe's column "End the mistreatment of race horses" May 8 in The News-Enterprise. Her column was chock-full of horror stories depicting the worst sorts of cruelty to horses imaginable. None were documented. None correspond with my own personal knowledge of pleasure and race horses. Kentucky is horse country. The News-Enterprise should apologize to horse owners everywhere for its implicit endorsement of Bonnie Erbe's slander.

If the odds-makers really know what they are talking about there’s little doubt of the outcome when 13 high-strung, athletic thoroughbreds lunge from the starting gate at Pimlico shortly after 6 p. m. Saturday. Odds are 1-2 that Kentucky Derby winner Big Brown will run away with the race.

Among its pitiful list of failings this year, the Kentucky General Assembly left Frankfort last month without clarifying the state’s laissez faire city classification system, which has caused an uproar the last year in Elizabethtown.

The House, at the urging of Rep. Jimmie Lee, D-Elizabethtown, unanimously approved a resolution to create a task force of lawmakers, residents and municipal officials to study the controversy. But Senate Republicans weren’t interested in taking up such a taxing issue.

In the April 13 edition of The News-Enterprise, there was an article titled, “Yarmuth blames Iraq for economy.” I think that statement is only partially correct and I can agree in a limited way with his statement.

“What are you doing?” I asked my niece, my face a little squished and I a little unsure I wanted to hear the answer. With her 3-year-old grip — the kind of grip you can only undo by prying each finger away, one at a time — she clutched the back of my neck in her hand and pressed my cheek close to hers.

The pursuit of justice is a delicate process at best. That’s why the symbolic Lady Justice is depicted holding a set of scales. A felony assault trial last week in Hardin Circuit Court illustrates the sensitive nature of pursuing truth.

It never ranked higher than Christmas or my birthday for obvious reasons, but the element of surprise that I could spring on my unsuspecting mother was pretty cool.

Usually what she would get on Mother’s Day is something we would put together during school and I would have to make sure I hid the card or the plant somewhere in my room where I knew she wouldn’t see it until Mother’s Day.

If she had ever sneaked a peek at one of those gifts, she never told me.